A power outage at the Yenagoa Division of the Federal High Court on Wednesday stalled proceedings in a suit challenging Shell’s divestment from its onshore assets and seeking redress over decades of environmental pollution in Bayelsa State.
When the matter came up for hearing, the presiding judge, Justice Ayo Emmanuel, informed parties present that proceedings could not continue because the courtroom was too hot.
It will be exceedingly difficult for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to secure a second mandate in 2027. At the summit of leadership, longevity is never the ultimate measure of success. What endures are strategic coherence, moral credibility and outcomes that tangibly improve the lives of ordinary citizens. On these defining pillars, the current administration appears dangerously unmoored, drifting amid a storm of unmet promises and deepening public discontent.
Nigeria’s security crisis has metastasised like an untreated wound, spreading across regions and generations. Yet there is still no clearly articulated, coherent and time-bound national strategy capable of restoring public confidence or decisively dismantling the machinery of terror.
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